Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-10
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The Assembly Committee on Public Morals
has reported favorably upon the bill to permit
cities and towns to license gambling, How any
Committee on Morals could possibly justify such
action, passes ordinary comprehension. Here
is a committee that is presumed to be
chosen to aid legislation to encourage
morality, yet ccnfesses that it is the
right thing to do to permit city govern
ments to draw revenue from the gaming ia
Bile. The people of cities, the committee for
gets are not alone concerned, but those of rural
parts also All the people have an interest in
| the moral conduct Of any community in the State
and have a right to be protected from the
demoraizing and debasing influence of gam
| bling hells. If the recommendation of the com
mttee should be translated into law, this Legis-
lature will go down i'll history not only as the
Legislature of thousand attaches, but as the
gamblers own" That the names of the dis
tinguished gentlemen who have added fame to
well-spent lives by this brilliant achievement
may be handed down 70 admiriDc pos;erity, we
subjoin the roster of the Assembly: Committee
on Public Morals (?l-Hon. X j. Curry Hon. L.
s Taylor, Hon. NJ d. Hyde, Hon. j. NJ Brooks,
ard Hon. Samuel Rucker
This same committee. by the way, has the
virtue of consistency, for, while 1t reported
| faVorably to gambling, il at the same time re-
| ported against the bill to prevent telephone and
messenger-service corporations and employers
sending lads to houses of prostitution and other
| sinks of inquity, and to prohibit such compa-
| nies from hiring their messenger boys ont to
serve the people of the slums. and do messenger
| duty in quarters where no father or mother, re-
| specting their parenthood and loving their
progeny, would ever consent to have them sent.
| Assemblyman Seymour Carr, of Sacramento,
deserves the thanks of the people for having
| introduced the necessary bill to more clearly
define lottery advertising, and TO provide fo1
| the enforcement of the Constitution and the
| laws regarding sale of To- terry tickets by means
/ of advertising The law has been and is being
| shamefully disregarded by leading journals of
the State, and a result the open sale OF lottery
| tickets is carried on upon the streets The bill
| of Mr.. Carr defines lottery advertising
| tn be any kind of publishing of the schemes
| of lotteries in advance, or any publication
| of accounts of drawings OF lotteries, whether in
| advertising columns reading matter, in
any paper, book or pamphlet. The bill ought to
| pass and how it can be objected to in the face
of the direction of the Constitution to the Legis
| lature, it is difficult to understand. The author
| of this Just and needed bill should be solicitous
| to see that the Assembly Committee on Public
| Morals does not get in its work on his admirable
| measure-should il 60 50, sudden death would
| be the unavoidable verdict.
| There is talk that an extra session of the
| Legislature is to be called Immediately after the
| close of the present session. Those who are
| speculating in this direction could not have
| read the Governors inaugural message, i'll
which he distinctly expresses his intentions
| against regaling the people with these eXpens-
i've luXuries, o: they think his experience with
the present legislative gathering has led him to
| change his mind and 70 desire TO make the law
making body continuing blessing.
| Vrooman's bill, introduced in the Senate yes.
| terCay, TO retain experienced teachers in the
| service of the State, provides that wheneverany
| teacher shall have taught faithfully and sue
| cessfully in the public schools for thirty years,
| he Tor shc) shall be entitled thereafter, during
| life, to an annuity of $500 A teacher shall be
adjudged to have taught a calendar year when
| he shall have taught during all the months mot
| less than six months1 during which school shall
have been maintained in the district or city
| where he was employed provided, that where
| any teacher has taught number of months less
than six, in calendar year, two or more of such
| calendar years mag be added together to make
number of months not less than six.
| The Senate Judiciary Committee last evening
| discussed S. B. 9, amending Section al of the
| Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the manner
| of commencing civil actions and the service of
| summons therein. The bill was introduced by
Senator Chandler. and is understood as having
| been intended to prevent the agents of corpora
| tions from escaping service of summons by
eludiDg persons directed to serve processes OF
Courts. 1t provides for making service by leav-
ing papers at the Office of company or by post
| ing on the defendants premises where its busi
| ness is carried on. The committee decided to
report the bill to the Senate without recon-
| mendatOn
S. B. 95S. providing for an appropriation to pay
the claim of the Marin County Water Works for
| water supplied TO the State Prison at san Quen-
tin from November, 1877, until December 1881.
| was considered by the Seiate Judiciary Com
| mittee last evening. The demand amounts to
| S-0,97l Judge Sears, of Marin county, made an
| argument in behalf of the water company. 1t
| appears that in 1872 contract was made be-
!
| pany for 1000 gallons of water daily, and from
| 1877 to 1881 extra water was used by the prison
| for brck-raking. The committee TOOK the
ground that the States liability if any, accrued
| outside the contract, and agreed TO report the
! bill back with the recommendation that it be
re erred TO the Committee on Claims.
There were two lively topics of debate in the
| Senate yesterday-the bill for the support of the
| State Mining Bureau and that authorizing per
| sons having claims against the State to sue for
the same in Court. Both were passed to en-
| grosSment. The appropriation for the Mining
| Bureau was reduced from 100000 to $50 COO
| and in the case of the other bill il was so
I amended as to permit suits to he brought on
! claims of not more than ten years standing.
| This, it is understood, will cover some of the
| unpaid claims accruing under the Drainage
| Act
| 3. B. 1S5, making municipal corporations
| liable for damages resulting from mob violence
| or riots, was before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee last evening. No definite action was
| reached. A number of other bills were partially
| considered and continued for further action.
! The Senate Committee on Elections resumed
| the hearing of testimony last evening in the
contested election case of Ryland against Conk-
| lin. Considerable testimony was taken, but no
| result was reached.